I noticed that my reputation points had gone up at Technorati, so I took a quick look to see why there was suddenly a little bit of a surge in sites linking to me. I laughed out loud. Evidently, you can’t use the word “impotence” anymore. My blog post “Bush Loyalists Admit Impotence” got picked up by a bunch of junk sites. You can imagine.
Reporters Without Borders’s Global Press Freedom Index tracks actions against news media. America’s ranks 53rd on press freedom. We’re between Tonga and Uruguay. Home of “freedom of the press,” the United States entered the list – when it started in 2002 – at 17th place. We fell nine places just since last year. “The steady erosion of press freedom in the United States, France and Japan is extremely alarming,†Reporters Without Borders said. They particularly concerned this year about how…